University of Southern California

Accessing Licensed eResources

Electronic resources licensed by the Health Sciences Libraries and the USC Libraries are available only to USC faculty, staff, and students. Most resources verify your USC affiliation through your IP address. LAC+USC Medical Center and CHLA employees have access to some resources as described through the links below.

Check your IP address at http://www.whatismyip.com to determine if you are connecting through a USC address. Anyone with an address beginning with 128.125 or 68.181 should be able to connect to USC resources directly without problems.

If you are located in one of the affiliated hospitals, at home, in some other location away from the USC network or using USC wireless, the remote access portal login page should appear when you click on any restricted resource. Simply enter your USC computer account username and password to establish yourself as a valid USC user. You should only need to do this once until you close your browser window or unless you leave your computer idle for more than 90 minutes.

VPN is no longer available to access USC's online resources because of increased VPN traffic by unauthorized users.

Use the following information if you still have trouble accessing any of the library's eResources. Select the appropriate user affiliation below for further instructions.

User Affiliation Access point
USC faculty, staff, student, others with a USC computer account

• USC campus
• USC Wireless
• USC proxy server
• CHLA
• ISI Marina del Rey
• Other locations

LAC+USC Medical Center employees

• LAC+USC Medical Center
CHLA employees
• CHLA

Still having problems?

Use the Report a problem form
                   or
Contact the Norris Library reference desk at (323) 442-1111, Monday thru Friday from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.

Revised 6/19/09

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